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A review of rock mechanics studies in the United States pertinent to earthquake prediction

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Premonitory phenomena such as dilatancy, creep, acoustic emission, and changes in seismic velocity and attenuation, electrical resistivity, magnetic moment, and gas emission, which occur before fracture of initially intact rock and before stick-slip on faults or between finely ground surfaces of rock, have been reviewed and discussed in relation to earthquake prediction. This review is restricted to the results of laboratory experiments that have been carried out in the United States of America.

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Byerlee, J. A review of rock mechanics studies in the United States pertinent to earthquake prediction. PAGEOPH 116, 586–602 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00876526

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